Eric Whitacre

Join Eric for Salastina’s virtual Happy Hour: Eric Whitacre and a Deep Field Deep Dive on Tuesday, June 21 at 6pm PDT.  Attendance for this event is free but pre-registration is required.

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Eric is thrilled to be at the NAMM Show this weekend for a series of events including the ground-breaking LIVE virtual performance of Sing Gently at The NAMM Foundation Grand Rally for Music Education powered by JackTrip.

Eric joined Jumoke Fashola on BBC Radio London yesterday to talk about the upcoming Live from London broadcast of The Sacred Veil with choral supergroup VOCES8, Christopher Glynn (piano) and Emma Denton (cello).

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Eric will be conducting the Oregon Repertory Singers (Artistic Director: Ethan Sperry) in many of his works including Leonardo Dreams of his Flying Machine, Lux Aurumque, Water Night, and more on April 23 and 24, 2022 at 4 pm PST.

Tickets are available now from the Oregon Repertory Singers website.

Only 24 hours remain to enter the lottery to win tickets to be in the live studio audience for Eric’s live broadcast with MPR on Tuesday 5 May at 6:30pm CDT.

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Gang… We’re looking for some volunteers for the health research investigating singing and wellbeing at Union Chapel, London on 5th March. It’s both optional & anonymous and will involve giving two saliva samples... continued

During a concert of my music in Montreal years ago there was a spectacular thunderstorm. At the end of Lux Aurumque something magical happened…

The first three minutes of Deep Field in skeletal sketch form – I call it “emotional architecture.” I will make drawings like this for every moment of the piece before I compose any of the actual music.

I’m working on a big new piece for choir and orchestra, which will be premiered by the Minnesota Orchestra and Minnesota Chorale in May. Thought some of you might like to see what the process looks like in the early stages.

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Just occurred to me that the band version of Lux Aurumque and the new choral version (Lux Nova) could be performed together seamlessly. The choir would just need to sing a half step up. Dying to know what this sounds like!

As the semester grinds on you may feel intensely burnt-out. You may even consider dropping out of music altogether. If that happens, go back and listen to your favorite recordings, make music with your friends, do anything you can to remind yourself why you... continued